In 10 years the electronic medical record will be the minor player, in terms of where a person's health history lives. Most of that information will be kept on the phone or in a secure cloud, and the patient will be highly engaged with collecting, curating and sharing that data. Most doctor visits will be like calling up a YouTube meets virtual human docs and there will also be an aspect of virtual reality.

Chapter Contents:

• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.1.1 Bitcoin blockchain
• 10.1.2 Block
• 10.1.3 Chain
• 10.2 Ethereum blockchain
• 10.3 Contracts and healthcare: the arising need of smart contracts
• 10.3.1 Smart contracts
• 10.3.2 Zero-knowledge-proofs and smart contracts
• 10.3.3 Ricardian contracts for healthcare
• 10.3.4 Hybrid smart–Ricardian contracts
• 10.4 Applications of blockchain
• 10.5 Healthcare data
• 10.5.1 Structured data sets
• 10.5.2 Non-structured data sets
• 10.6 Popular resources for gathering healthcare data
• 10.7 Need of healthcare data
• 10.8 Services offered by the blockchain in healthcare
• 10.8.1 Data sharing and privacy issues
• 10.8.2 Longitudinal patient records and health data accuracy
• 10.8.3 Drug track ability
• 10.8.4 Fake medical credentials
• 10.8.5 Claims processing
• 10.8.6 Supply chain management
• 10.8.7 Interoperability of data among medical institutes
• 10.9 Medicines and supply chain tracking enabled by blockchain
• 10.10 Data security concerns in EMR and healthcare domain
• 10.11 Choices of blockchain platforms for healthcare
• 10.11.1 Ethereum
• 10.11.2 IBM® blockchain
• 10.11.3 Hyperledger
• 10.11.4 Hydrachain
• 10.11.5 R3 Corda
• 10.11.6 MultiChain
• 10.11.7 BigchainDB
• 10.11.8 OpenChain
• 10.11.9 Quorum blockchain platform
• 10.11.10 EOS blockchain platform
• 10.11.11 Internet-of-Things application (IOTA) blockchain platform
• 10.12 Major healthcare blockchain use cases under development
• 10.13 Storage challenges and need for inter planetary file system (IPFS) enabled blockchain for healthcare
• 10.14 IPFS
• 10.15 Why do we need IPFS?
• 10.16 Blockchain and IPFS
• 10.17 Challenges and roadblocks to the realisation of blockchain-enabled healthcare
• 10.18 Conclusion
• References

Inspec keywords: electronic health records; health care; cloud computing; social networking (online); security of data; virtual reality

Other keywords: secure cloud; virtual reality; blockchain; electronic medical record; doctor visits; virtual human docs; healthcare

Subjects: Internet software; Virtual reality; Data security; Information networks; Medical administration; Biology and medical computing